Every year from Thanksgiving until just after New Year’s Day, you can experience the Bull Run Festival of Lights, 2.5 miles illuminated by holiday light displays. Drive the festival route from the comfort of your car; turn out your headlights and just follow the magical glow. After viewing the lights, bring your family and friends to the holiday village to enjoy rides, refreshments, and of course, photos with Santa Claus (holiday village open select nights). The festival happens annually at Bull Run Regional Park in Centreville, Virginia.

Want to avoid the crowds? Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays are our busiest nights. Please take advantage of the Monday through Thursday discounted price and avoid a long wait.

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In time for the holidays, the Rainforest Trust is hosting the largest ever public auction of species naming rights. Holiday shoppers will be able to buy the ultimate gift of naming one of 12 new species including a blue-eyed yellow frog, speckled red and green frogs, orchids, a trap jaw ant, a mouse, a worm-like caecilian, and a big-eyed salamander that were found in South America. All proceeds protect the specific species’ habitat, helping save them from extinction. Pre-registration required.

SAVE THE DATE!!!! 🌻Starting November 15th – December 15th Summers Gifted Senior Services will be giving back to our Seniors with our annual “The Gifted Tree”!!! We are collecting gifts and non perishable foods items to give to our #seniors . 🌻We need YOUR help! If you know a Senior in need in the Northern Virginia Area please call us @ 703-829-7939 and give us their information and desired gift(s) request. . . 🌻We are still taking names and request through November 15th. . 🌻Starting November 15th-December 15th you can go to participating stores or our office and take a stocking with the name of the Senior along with the request. . 🌻Purchase the gift(s) request and put the request along with the stocking into the box under the #thegiftedtree . . 🌻You may also donate to #thegiftedtree via Cash App : $summersgiftedseniors Or PayPal . . 🌻All Gifts from #thegiftedtree will be delivered on December 21st and 22nd or as arranged. . . 🌻For more information and to give a name, volunteer or donate please call 703-829-7939 email: info@summersgiftedseniorservices

Parkinson’s Social Network (support group) – And every 3rd Wednesday from 10am-12pm. We’d Love to see you! People living with Parkinson’s or other related movement disorders such as LewyBody Dementia, their carepartners, family, and friends- All are Welcome! Relay and enjoy a cup of coffee, donute, and other delicious munchies with old Friends….and meet new ones. Will you Join Us?

Join us every Wednesday for free admission to the Museum. In addition to our free days, NSLM offers a free gallery talk every Wednesday at 2pm. These informal, half-hour tours give visitors an insider’s view of changing exhibitions, permanent collections, and more. No two tours are alike, so bring your friends!

Every year from Thanksgiving until just after New Year’s Day, you can experience the Bull Run Festival of Lights, 2.5 miles illuminated by holiday light displays. Drive the festival route from the comfort of your car; turn out your headlights and just follow the magical glow. After viewing the lights, bring your family and friends to the holiday village to enjoy rides, refreshments, and of course, photos with Santa Claus (holiday village open select nights). The festival happens annually at Bull Run Regional Park in Centreville, Virginia. Want to avoid the crowds? Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays are our busiest nights. Please take advantage of the Monday through Thursday discounted price and avoid a long wait.

Every year from Thanksgiving until just after New Year’s Day, you can experience the Bull Run Festival of Lights, 2.5 miles illuminated by holiday light displays. Drive the festival route from the comfort of your car; turn out your headlights and just follow the magical glow. After viewing the lights, bring your family and friends to the holiday village to enjoy rides, refreshments, and of course, photos with Santa Claus (holiday village open select nights). The festival happens annually at Bull Run Regional Park in Centreville, Virginia. Want to avoid the crowds? Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays are our busiest nights. Please take advantage of the Monday through Thursday discounted price and avoid a long wait. Look for our special online coupon in the downloads section below!

Every year from Thanksgiving until just after New Year’s Day, you can experience the Bull Run Festival of Lights, 2.5 miles illuminated by holiday light displays. Drive the festival route from the comfort of your car; turn out your headlights and just follow the magical glow. After viewing the lights, bring your family and friends to the holiday village to enjoy rides, refreshments, and of course, photos with Santa Claus (holiday village open select nights). The festival happens annually at Bull Run Regional Park in Centreville, Virginia. Want to avoid the crowds? Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays are our busiest nights. Please take advantage of the Monday through Thursday discounted price and avoid a long wait.

On the day after Thanksgiving, a full day of cheer and charity at Reston Town Center is highlighted with the 28th annual Reston Holiday Parade at 11 a.m. featuring Macy’s-style balloons, marching bands, dancers, characters, antique cars, community groups, dignitaries, and the arrival of Santa and Mrs. Claus in a horse-drawn carriage. This one-hour procession is one of the “10 Best” in USA Today Travel, 2016 and 2017. Grand Marshal for 2018 is actress Sissy Sheridan, and MCs at two grandstand locations are Angie Goff and Doug Kammerer of NBC News4. Before the parade begins, 10,000 commemorative jingle bells will be distributed to children along the route. After the parade, Santa and Mrs. Claus will stay for visits and photos, and Mini-Train rides will be offered on Market Street from 12:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. The Clauses will return for the Tree Lighting in Fountain Square at 6 p.m. to begin the half-hour Sing Along of traditional Christmas songs, followed by horse-drawn carriage rides from 6:30 until 10:00 p.m. All proceeds from rides and voluntary donations for photos are received directly by local charities. The Ice Skating Pavilion is open all day, 8 a.m. until 11 p.m. All information, including more through the season, is on the website. The day begins with the Gingerbread Man Mile Races for Kids from 8 until 9 a.m. Ample parking is available in six garages, free of charge on parade day, federal holidays, all weekends, and free after 5 pm on weekdays.

Every year from Thanksgiving until just after New Year’s Day, you can experience the Bull Run Festival of Lights, 2.5 miles illuminated by holiday light displays. Drive the festival route from the comfort of your car; turn out your headlights and just follow the magical glow. After viewing the lights, bring your family and friends to the holiday village to enjoy rides, refreshments, and of course, photos with Santa Claus (holiday village open select nights). The festival happens annually at Bull Run Regional Park in Centreville, Virginia. Want to avoid the crowds? Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays are our busiest nights. Please take advantage of the Monday through Thursday discounted price and avoid a long wait. Look for our special online coupon in the downloads section below!

Goose Creeks Players proudly presents its inaugural show, Miracle on 34th Street, the Play, directed and produced by Michael Goshorn. This classic, heartwarming story will delight and amaze the young and young-at-heart with its transformative themes of the power in belief, faith, imagination, and goodwill. Based on the 1947 classic film, the story revolves around an elderly gentleman who believes he is the real Santa and a little girl who learns to have faith in the magic of the Christmas season. Goose Creek Players is proud to support HeroHomes, a not-for-profit foundation established to build houses for veterans and their families. A portion of the proceeds of this production will go to HH. November 23rd & November 30th at 7:30pm November 24th & 25th at 2:00pm December 1st & 2nd at 2:00 pm Trillium Gathering Building 18915 Lincoln Road Purcellville, VA 20132 Audience members are encouraged to stick around after the show to take pictures with Santa Claus. Mountain Community Theater adapted Miracle on 34th Street from the novel by Valentine Davies; based on the 20th Century Fox motion picture “Miracle on 34th Street.” This production is produced by special arrangement with the Dramatic Publishing Company of Woodstock, Illinois. Goose Creek Players is an affiliation and co-operative effort of Stevens Miller and Michael Goshorn.